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forest and stream 
HERCULES 
Smokeless Shotgi 
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Infallible and “E C.’ 
can be obtained in all 
of the following makes 
of shotgun shells. 
PETERS 
REMINGTON 
SELBY 
U. S. 
WESTERN 
WINCHESTER 
In Your Favorite 
Make of Shells 
T HE fact that you prefer some partic¬ 
ular make of shell when shooting at 
the traps or in the field need not pre¬ 
vent you from enjoying the satisfaction 
given sportsmen by Hercules Smokelss Shot¬ 
gun Powders, Infallible and “E. C. ” 
These splendid powders, which are of high 
and remarkably uniform quality, may be 
obtained in any standard make of shell. 
Undoubtedly the shell you use is named in 
the list given at the left. The next time 
you order ask for a Hercules Powder in that 
particular make of shell. You will see the 
name of the powder stenciled on the box 
and on the top wad in each shell. 
Hercules Smokeless Shotgun Powders give 
light recoil, high velocity, even patterns. 
You can’t do better than shoot either In¬ 
fallible or “E. C.” Write for a free book¬ 
let that describes them fully. 
HERCULES POWDER CO. 
1061 Market Street 
Wilmington 
Delaware 
sought out either by one’s own woodcraft 
or by the wonderful work of an intelli¬ 
gent dog. Confidence breeds confidence and 
the whole line of other shots will be 
strengthened by the solving of the perhaps 
really easy yet personally difficult one. 
HE usual sportsman, not the one who 
spends every identical day of the open 
season in the cover, can go back over 
the bird season and recall almost every miss 
and kill and he knows what combination of 
angle, elevation, speed and distance he 
would substitute with a clay target for the 
flying bird. Both automatic and expert 
traps may be manipulated in a manner to 
give any flight and any speed in reason, 
while the shooter is free to roam the 360 
degrees and entrench for the enemy. In 
order that it may not be guess work, let 
the investigator have this fixed target 
thrown as slow as may be and handling 
his field gun in the manner of a trapshooter 
play around the target with his shots till he 
finds what is the matter, then develop the 
shot to the point of a surprise pull of the 
target and the gun jumped to the shoulder. 
With the thing well in hand it is not an 
inopportune time to slap in the second bar¬ 
rel when a miss does occur, and there is 
an opportunity, too. to experiment with that 
foolish, floating, driven grouse that a few 
times each season comes sailing your way. 
Out where the clay targets are alighting 
is the place to intersect this right-angled 
proposition and it may run into shells, nev¬ 
ertheless, it is a good investment. 
I T is impossible to imitate even poorly the 
flight of a woodcock with the usual clay 
target machine and while some might be¬ 
come expert enough with some of the hand- 
traps to approach the thing they will not 
be met with at every crossroads. There¬ 
fore, other means may serve a better end 
for practice or at least to supplement prac¬ 
tice at clay targets.' Most shot gun shells 
are highly colored and the empty cases 
show up well when thrown through the 
small cover such as the woodcock frequents. 
Snapping at them as they bound among the 
limbs will satisfy the most skillful. This 
with the clay targets afford practice, the 
lessons from which will, if well soaked 
in, develop an added skill that allows of 
at least a reasonable amount of cunning 
with- the trigger of a shot gun and the 
ability to cut down those lost opportunities 
to an appreciable degree. 
It is safe to say that no one is letter 
perfect in shooting upland game birds and 
if any one ever approached perfection he 
would stop long short of it through satia¬ 
tion. There is, however, a charm in know¬ 
ing how to handle skillfully each real op¬ 
portunity and that too in the early mo¬ 
ments before disgust and physical exhaus¬ 
tion- set in both on the part of the gunner 
and the game. 
STEAM WILL SOON BE UP. 
EFORE the tremendous sums of 
money which are involved in a “world 
series” or a Yale-Harvard foot ball 
game have passed completely from the 
memory it is interesting to lay beside them 
for comparison the 40 million dollar for¬ 
tune invested in the sport of trapshooting 
and also there is called to mind the thir¬ 
teen most powerful trapshooting organiza¬ 
tions in the country, viz.: 
New York Athletic Club, Travers Is¬ 
land, N. Y. 
S. S. White Gun Club, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wilmington Trapshooting Association, 
Wilmington, Del. 
Chicago Gun Club, Chicago, Ill. 
Cincinnati Gun Club, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Oriole Gun Club, Baltimore, Md. 
Memphis Gun Club, Memphis, Tenn. 
Portland Gun Club, Portland, Ore. 
Indianapolis Gun Club, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Bay View Gun Club, Alameda, Cal. 
Los Angeles Gun Club, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Pastime Gun Club, Detroit, Mich. 
St. Louis Trapshooters’ Association, St. 
Louis, Mo. 
Professionalism in the sport is a thing 
of the past and unlike America’s other 
great sports it is purely a sport of the 
masses in which they are the actors. 
Intercollegiate shoots have been held in¬ 
termittently since 1898 although not till 
last year with the formation of the Inter¬ 
collegiate Association has the sport been 
put upon a firm basis. There have been 
25 shoots up to the 25th of November, this 
year, of those Yale has won 13 first places 
while Princeton and Harvard have each 
won the championship 6 times. Solid gold 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
A Country of Fish and Game 
A Paradise for the Camper and Angler 
Ideal Canoe Trips 
The country traversed by the Reid Newfoundland Company’s system is exceedingly rich in all 
kinds of Fish and Game. All along the route of the Railway are streams famous for their. Salmon 
and Trout fishing, also Caribou barrens. Americans who have been fishing and hunting in New¬ 
foundland say there is no other country in the world in which so good fishing and hunting can 
be secured and with such ease as in Newfoundland Information, together with illustrated 
Booklet and Folder, cheerfully forwarded upon application to 
J. W. N. Johnstone, General Passenger Agent, Reid Newfoundland Co., St. John’s, Newfoundland 
